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Title 5: Centrally Administered Programs Page 54 Iowa Department of Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter E: Healthy and Well Kids in Iowa (hawk-i) Types of Income Revised July 3, 2009 Financial Assistance for Education or Training

Financial Assistance for Education or Training 441 IAC 86.2“b”(19) Exempt all earned and unearned financial assistance received for education or training. Apply the exemption to educational assistance of an undergraduate or graduate student. Focus Group, Survey or Study Income 441 IAC 86.2(2)“b”(17) & (25) Count payments received for participating in a focus group, survey, or study unless the payment is a reimbursement or a gift certificate. Whether the payment is considered earned or unearned income depends on how it is described by the entity providing it. Also see Welfare Reform Evaluation Payments for more information. Food Programs 441 IAC 86.2“b”(3-6) Exempt the value of the following: ♦ Food Assistance. ♦ Commodities donated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

♦ Supplemental food assistance received under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the special food service program for children under the National School Lunch Act (Public Laws 92-433 and 93-150).

♦ Benefits received under Title III-C, Nutrition Program for the Elderly, of the Older Americans Act of 1965, such as the Congregate Meals Program administered through the Iowa Department of Elder Affairs. Food Stamp Employment and Training Allowance 441 IAC 86.2“b”(19) Exempt Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) component allowances. Foster Care Payments 441 IAC 86.2“b”(26) Exempt foster care payments, including therapeutic foster care payments, made to a hawk-i family operating a licensed foster family home. “Therapeutic foster care” payments are higher payments made on behalf of special needs foster children.